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/disable

Disable a community skill installed through the hub without removing its files. Use when the user wants to temporarily quiet a community skill ("disable [skill]"), stop its hooks from firing while keeping its config, or re-enable a previously disabled skill.

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claude-for-legal
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Install
$ npx -y skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill disable --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/disable

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Disable a community skill installed through the hub without removing its files. Use when the user wants to temporarily quiet a community skill ("disable [skill]"), stop its hooks from firing while keeping its config, or re-enable a previously disabled skill.

SKILL.md

disable.SKILL.md
name: disable
description: >
  Disable a community skill installed through the hub without removing its
  files. Use when the user wants to temporarily quiet a community skill
  ("disable [skill]"), stop its hooks from firing while keeping its config,
  or re-enable a previously disabled skill.
argument-hint: "[skill name]"

/disable

Run the `disable` workflow from the skill-manager reference skill against the named skill.

What disable does:

  • Renames the skill's `SKILL.md` to `SKILL.md.disabled` so Claude no longer

discovers it as an active skill. Files, references, templates, and config stay in place.

  • If the skill ships hooks in `hooks/hooks.json`, also rename that file to

`hooks.json.disabled` so no automatic triggers fire while the skill is disabled.

  • Logs the action to

`~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-builder-hub/install-log.yaml`.

Safety rules:

1. **Only disable community skills installed through this hub.** Same check as uninstall — consult the install log and CLAUDE.md installed table. 2. **Never disable a first-party plugin's skill.** Off-limits. 3. **Confirm before renaming.** Show the paths, get explicit `yes`.

Re-enable by running the command again with the same skill name — the skill-manager workflow recognizes a disabled skill and flips the rename back.

> Detailed uninstall, disable, and re-enable workflows live in the > `skill-manager` reference skill — load it before doing substantive work.

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Reference agents, skills, and data connectors for the legal workflows we see most — in-house commercial, privacy, product, corporate, employment, litigation, regulatory, AI governance, IP, and the learning side of the practice (law school clinics and

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